![]() ![]() ![]() On the other: a growing influx of the ultra-celebrities-many of them people of color, in a community once almost exclusively white-who are buying into the area’s burgeoning mystique, and can’t resist dropping hints about it in public. On one side: longtime residents who relish simple pleasures-like picking up their children on horseback and having their houses unavailable on Google Street View (because photography vehicles are banned from the area). ![]() But as Hidden Hills transforms from a rustic backwater to rival Beverly Hills for the conspicuous consumption crown, the neighborhood is facing a cultural rift. in the 1950s.ĭrake and his Hidden Hills home Left, by George Pimentel/WireImage right, by Juliano/.Īnd West is hardly the only Hollywood arriviste setting down roots in this incorporated city of just 648 residences which is fast becoming Los Angeles’s most gilded celebrity redoubt. Think three-dimensional Norman Rockwell painting-a throwback to Hidden Hills’ establishment as an equestrian-based, ranch-style alterna-L.A. He may have spent $110,000 on a Le Corbusier lamp made of “rocks and cement” and admire the buildings of Catalan surrealist Antoni Gaudí, but if West is considering erecting any kind of cutting-edge steel-and-glass edifice he would need approval from the community, in the interest of neighborhood orthodoxy. In Hidden Hills, however, an insider says West has been frustrated by strict local rules and regulations enforced by the powerful Hidden Hills Community Association that effectively limit how much he can alter his mansion’s original aesthetic (a “French Country piece de resistance” according to its listing). One’s mileage may vary on such reports, but whatever the case, the renovations continue. The Daily Mail reported that textured beige finish was added to the home’s facade then, as if on a whim, buffed away-and that an entire new wing was added to one section of the property. A forest of mature trees as well as two vineyards appear, in aerial tabloid photography, to have been removed. According to TMZ, convoys of dump trucks have rumbled through the exclusive neighborhood’s near-trafficless, pin-drop quiet streets as the Kardashian-Wests’ two separate swimming pools were filled in and excavation began for an artificial lake. Among locals it has become known as the “never-ending remodel,” and outside of the community, it has become an object of total tabloid fascination. Since August 2014, when the world’s most famous couple purchased their dream home from Lisa Marie Presley for $20 million, their mega-mansion has remained in a state of constant construction. But, if reports and local chatter north of the Ventura Freeway are to be believed, these were but precursors to his masterpiece, the 20,000-square-foot Shangri-La he’s building with wife Kim Kardashian West in the very-much-gated and until-very-recently sleepy enclave of Hidden Hills. And West’s Hollywood Hills bachelor pad provided a showcase of SoCal Brutalism (he sold it for $2.95 million in 2017). His $4.5 million Claudio Silvestrin-designed New York apartment, for instance, is an aggressively minimalist space filled with hard right angles and French limestone. Among many other things, Kanye West prides himself on his exacting architectural taste. ![]()
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